Author Archives: leslie

Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause

Posted on March 15, 2020 by leslie

Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause Frank Ellis celebrates a defeat for censorship  Green eyes cut the heart without a knife (Vasilii Grossman) I. Introduction:  For a Just Cause or Stalingrad? Outside the circle of people who concern themselves with Grossman’s work … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, March 2020

Posted on March 11, 2020 by leslie

ENDNOTES, March 2020 Remembering Vernon Handley  by Stuart Millson A recent BBC Radio 3 performance of a recording of Bax’s symphonic poem, The Garden of Fand – and my own replaying of a landmark recording of Tippett’s Concerto for Double … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus

Posted on March 10, 2020 by leslie

Coronavirus  Ilana Mercer unmasks statist propaganda Some clear thinking is required to counter incessant, statist propaganda against the use of N-95 filtering facepiece respirators, to protect against the spread of the novel coronavirus. The message has been seconded at every … Continue reading →

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Evening All

Posted on March 6, 2020 by leslie

Evening All  Bill Hartley considers coercive control                                                            A hairdresser in a … Continue reading →

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Anti-White Politics (2)

Posted on March 2, 2020 by leslie

Anti-White Politics (2) by Ilana Mercer It’s not identity politics, it’s anti-white politics. Every time a racist, anti-white event goes down, which is often, conservative media call it “identity politics.” “The left is playing identity politics.” But whatever is gripping … Continue reading →

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Truth – Curse of the Woking Classes

Posted on March 2, 2020 by leslie

Truth – Curse of the Woking Classes Ed Dutton on Murray’s accomplishments Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Class, and Race, Charles Murray, New York: Twelve, 2020, reviewed by Dr Edward Dutton When writing Human Diversity, Charles Murray found himself … Continue reading →

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E R Dodds, Remembered

Posted on February 28, 2020 by leslie

E R Dodds, Remembered Rediscovering E R Dodds, Scholarship, Education, Poetry and the Paranormal, edited by C. Stray, C. Pelling and S. Harrison, Pp. 341, OUP, 2019, reviewed by Darrell Sutton “This book originated in a conference on E.R. Dodds held … Continue reading →

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Neocons and the Permanent State (Part 2)

Posted on February 25, 2020 by leslie

Neocons and the Permanent State (Part 2) by Ilana Mercer “How does America change if our intelligence agencies were more accurate in their assessment of Saddam Hussein’s chemical and nuclear weapons programs?” The question was posed, just the other day, in … Continue reading →

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Neocons and the Permanent State (Part1)

Posted on February 18, 2020 by leslie

Neocons and the Permanent State (Part 1) by Ilana Mercer Following the show of incompetence at the Democratic Iowa caucus, columns on competence proliferated. One stood out for its ineptness: “Make America Competent Again” by David French at the Dispatch. … Continue reading →

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What the Ancients did for Us

Posted on February 15, 2020 by leslie

What the Ancients did for Us Michael McManus, on our pagan heritage The pre-Socratic pagan philosopher Anaxagoras took two pots of paint, one black and one white. He took a drop of white and added it to the black, then … Continue reading →

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